Important vs urgent.
It's easy to confuse the two.
"Urgent" is based on deadlines and due dates.
"Important" is based on stakes and consequences of (in)action.
Urgent things can become important as their deadlines approach.
Important things usually stay important, regardless of urgency.
Addressing climate change is both. 50 years ago it was just as important, but arguably less urgent then.
Breathing is both important and urgent.
Work is frequently urgent, but not always important.
Is there an Android calendar app that has nice widgets and is like at least 10% the quality of Apple's calendar app while also not having ads?
This is like one of the weakest points of the Android ecosystem. The mail, calendar, and contacts ecosystem outside of Google/Gmail are complete garbage
The world needs to stop calling it artificial intelligence, FFS.
There is nothing artificial about computer programming, and the intelligence of the programmers is debatable, if they're running around promoting this AI shite.
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As artificial intelligence becomes more widely used, the demand for more powerful memory is driving up RAM prices.Hallee Mandryk (CTVNews)
Both KDE and GNOME provide a user experience that's so vastly superior to Windows and macOS that the tech media doesn't know what to do or say anymore. They're still holding on to their stale, early 2000s narratives about desktop Linux, incapable of adjusting their preconceived notions to the reality of today.
The reality that both Windows and macOS have become unusable trashfires while KDE and GNOME left them in the dust years ago and continue to improve by leaps and bounds every year just does not compute for these people.
A group of top fashion influencers once praised the "European craftsmanship" of a $600 pair of pumps, only to realize minutes later they were actually holding a $20 pair of shoes from the discount rack at Payless.
In 2018, Payless was tired of being the place you only went to because your mom made you, so they decided to run a sociological experiment on the fashion elite.
They took over a former Armani store in a luxury mall in Santa Monica, stocked it with their standard $20 boots and sneakers, and rebranded the entire shop as "Palessi", named after the amazing designer Bruno Palessi, who didn't actually exist.
They invited social media influencers and fashion experts to the grand opening, serving champagne and treating it like a high-end Italian launch and the trap worked a little too well.
Guests were interviewed holding cheap synthetic sneakers, saying things like, "I would pay $400 or $500 for these," and describing the look as "sophisticated" and "classy."
One influencer spent $640 on a pair of boots that retailed for $30. In just a few hours, the store sold $3,000 worth of inventory at a markup of 1,800%.
Once the sales were finalized, the organizers revealed the truth: the "Palessi" logo was fake, and they were standing inside a Payless commercial.
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Fix "Total 2FA Bypass for Users"
Nicad? Maybe you mean NiMH?
Thing about NiMH batteries is they run at 1.2V, so even at best, they are always underpowering a bit. These rechargeable lithiums I got are 1.5V, like regular alcaline batteries. The charger doesn't beep. It's just a case with 8 battery slots and a USB C port with some lights.
@BorrisInABox is this the one you have? I am trying to do a search on my own, and going on what you said, I found this
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trying to help this FreeBSD user in China get their microphone working on a Dell Latitude 3510 which has a Realtek ALC236.
I found instructions on how to debug this in a FreeBSD bug report, but it's guessing game which bits you have to twiddle to get it to work.
By that I mean, you can "reprogram" pins for snd_hda devices (because they have very reprogrammable/reconfigurable input/output devices) using specific values in /boot/device.hints
anyway, I had a loose grasp on what the debug output means and what to look for so I pasted it into Claude and explained what I was doing and it broke down exactly what all the output means and suggested 3 different options that could get 2 different inputs working correctly as a microphone. It's always possible the hardware is lying or at least mislabeled the audio jacks though, that's why there's 3 different options.
If one of these works I'm going to laugh my ass off as it's yet another case of "AI is bad, except it debugged something that nobody has been able to fix for almost 6 years now." And then the kernel can just be patched with these same values and it will work automatically for everyone in the future.
If you could just paste the output for any Realtek ALC chip and get working values that would make it a LOT easier for kernel devs to support this spaghetti hardware. We really can't expect the devs to have access to every goddamn laptop model in existence. It's just too much to ask.
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I promised myself I'd be more positive on here but I can't. I really can't.
WHY IS WHATSAPP WEB TAKING UP 812MB OF RAM?
Over 800 megs. For a messaging app. On a browser. What is going on? Where have we gone wrong? And hey, it used to be that it was easy to justify the continued use of WhatsApp because of its accessibility, but that is no longer the case. It now sucks. But hey, there's one good part to all of this:
At least, at the very least, I don't have to use Telegram.
I expect we'll be starting war with Iran soon seeing how Australia has requested all citizens leave the country immediately. They must have been given a heads up.
> "Leave Iran now. Commercial options to depart are still available but becoming more limited. Airspace closures and flight cancellations could happen soon, making it impossible to leave later," the public communique read on Monday (January 12). Canberra further said that Australian citizens staying back in Iran despite the advisory would be responsible for their own safety.
Existing World's Smallest Violin Still Too Large By Orders of Magnitude, Say Boffins
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A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
I am here once again to tell you no centralized service is the solution, the solution is #decentralization
> Investment firm buys #Threema.
> Their "investment themes":
> - Growth potential above 10% per annum
> - Profitable or foreseeable path to profitability
About one in 12 sheep is gay, but when rams prefer the company of other rams, they're considered a commercial failure and slaughtered. In Germany, some are lucky enough to end up in the Rainbow Wool sanctuary, a biodiverse sheep farm that prioritizes animal welfare, run by Michel Stücke and his partner Jochen. Last month, the wool from some of those sheep was showcased by LA designer Michael Schmidt in his "I Wool Survive" collection, a collaboration with Grindr and publicist Kelly Cutrone. Dazed talked to Schmidt and Cutrone about the collection. Learn more about Rainbow Wool — including how to sponsor a gay sheep — at the second link.
#LGBTQ #Fashion #Farming #AnimalWelfare #Sheep #Animals
Using the wool of 35 homosexual rams, LA designer Michael Schmidt crafted a collection that examined the ‘stereotypical tropes of gay fantasies’Dazed Digital
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Mastodon was recommended by a friend, so still figuring all this out. I'm a young writer trying to learn my craft by writing in public. Learn by doing, right?
Works are free under CC BY.
100% human.
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This ad for a cheap Funai VCR on marketplace had an completely incorrect AI description (image1), because they googled the Funai UL Listing number (image2,image3) which scraped an ebay listing for a DTV box that also used the UL Listing number (image4).
The internet is eating itself and I'm tired.
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For the fourth time, the Blind Travel Foundation $10000 travel grant is available to benefit the blind and visually impaired community.
They are doing amazing work and really put the money to good use. Please apply by February 1, or just spread the word.
We are thrilled to announce that the application for the 2026 Blind Travel Foundation $10,000 Travel Grant is LIVE — and we are looking for bold, imaginative…Blind Travel Foundation
I don't know what's worse.
Links to flipboard or links to instagram or facebook ?
Just randomly thinking about that car I used to pass every week on the way to and from my child psychiatrist's office in 1995, with a missing door. Lots of tape where the door should have been.
I wonder how that person's life turned out.
'Imperialists can never save you': In Lebanon, Iranians divided over protests shaking their country #press
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
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I’m moving away from Facebook and Instagram, as they no longer feel like the places where I want to spend my energy.
I’m a photographer working across film and digital — people, places and weddings — and I’d love to connect with others who care about analogue photography.
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#analogue
Comitis Capital hat den Kauf von Threema vereinbart – final abgeschlossen ist das laut Mitteilung noch nicht (Closing im Jan. 2026 geplant).
Und ja: Threema bleibt weiterhin in der Schweiz (Sitz), aber „Schweizer Souveränität“ ist am Ende auch eine Frage von Eigentümerstruktur, Governance und Transparenz.
@roCKyJungE @BlackWolf
Wie hast du deiner Familie und Freunden erklärt wie XMPP funktioniert?
Jedem, dem ich auch nur davon erzähle, ist ab dem Punkt komplett überfordert, wenn es darum geht, dass man seinen Server frei wählen kann und ich komme nicht mal an den Punkt, wo man sich seinen Klienten selbst auswählen kann.
Aber heutzutage sind Menschen von ihrer Freiheit irgendwie komplett überfordert und das in vielen Gebieten.
Bin für jeden Tipp dankbar, weil ich möchte gerne mehr Menschen zu XMPP bringen.
Apparently to renew a passport in Canada one has to pay a tax to Adobe, and Microsoft or Apple.
What kind of fucking elbows up is that?
How about you make a form in the web browser and if you need use to have the PDF generate the PDF as the result?
Requiring a single (American) vendor is already a violation of procurement rules. Why isn't it in the communication with citizen?
Non-withstanding that the software IS spyware.
I've been beaten by the LAPD. I lived in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I've been tear gassed and watched police push people backwards off of highway overpasses. I knew and understood many Black Panthers.
I am sick and tired of Kumbaya songs. I am sick and tired of turn-the-other-cheek reactions to current affairs in the US.
But I am also a lawyer, sworn to peaceful methods.
What do I do?
What strikes me is the age old method of ostracism - practiced in ancient Athens, written about in plays like Lysistrata, and rendered into strong force by churches through the practice of excommunication.
We ought to perform civil excommunication on ICE agents - do not sell or rent products to them in stores, do not rent hotel rooms to them, do not fund them, treat them like modern day lepers. Businesses should make it clear that they will never be hired for a job. Do not adopt Jesus' policy of acceptance of them.
Spread their names so that we may cut them off from society.
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883068…
fanbois call it Epic Yclic Code
It attempts to fit solutions from potentially very different domains together with corrective code "epicycles" until it satisfies its context, the user, and tests.
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